Rachel Ward – Born in 1957
UK born Australian actress, director and screenwriter Rachel Ward dropped out of school to pursue modelling, and even appeared on the covers of Vogue, and Cosmopolitan. She was soon cast in the movie Sharky’s Machine and even garnered a Golden Globe nomination for it. But her real breakthrough came after being cast in the. television miniseries The Thorn Birds which got her a second Golden Globe nod! Ward would go on to have an average career after the movie and shifted focus to directing movies instead. She recently admitted that she left acting because of all the bad reviews she got for Thorn Birds.